The Doctor Who Christmas special will premiere on BBC One on Christmas Day (Wednesday December 25th) at 7:30pm, it has been announced.

In the special, titled The Time Of The Doctor, the massed forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars – and amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Just for a change, here's a very nice fandmade trailer for Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks. I saw this on YouTube ages ago, but it was deleted. However, it seems that the guy who did it managed to re-upload it after some edits...

Good. I didn't mind the split season for season 6, but splitting season 7 over two years...

BTW, the missing episodes rumours continue unabated. Rumours abound that Marco Polo has been recovered. I reckon that if any such announcement will be made (and while the announcements for The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear has made me more hopeful than usual, it's still a very slim chance), it'll be at the Missing Presumed Wiped thing at the BFI on the 21st. Of course, it's still a bloody slim chance, and more than likely, nothing will be announced.

Even so, Marco Polo is one of the more plausible potential finds of missing episodes. That story was sold to so many countries, it's not funny, and what records exist suggest that it may yet still exist in some archive or another overseas.

I know. He was good as Bullard in Midsomer Murders, and I've seen two of his roles in Doctor Who. He played a mute assassin in The Romans (gets the s*** beaten out of him by the Doctor and Vicki ), and a rather dodgy but ultimately good-hearted Time Lord called Drax in The Armageddon Factor. Unfortunately, his second role in the series is in an episode currently missing.

Except for Day of the Doctor, I've caught up. Really enjoyed this season and The Snowmen. I thought Clara was fun and I'll be really sorry to see Matt Smith go. Skimmed through this thread and saw that he was filming in Detroit! I had no idea we were in the same state. If I'd known, I might have tried to go watch. Actually, that's probably a lie. We are talking about Detroit after all.

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees: